The year was 1907, twenty years before his famed disappearance, and British explorer, Percy Fawcett, was floating down the Rio Negro in a long boat, surrounded by his indigenous crew.

Sources say, he saw the beast’s great triangular head lifting from the water near the bow of the boat and opened fire. He would strike the creature in the back and after a small struggle the snake was dead.
“We stepped ashore and approached the reptile with caution. It was out of action, but shivers ran up and down the body like puffs of wind on a mountain tarn. As far as it was possible to measure, a length of 45 feet lay out of the water, and 17 feet in it, making a total length of 62 feet …” Fawcett wrote in his journal.
Percy Fawcett was known for being a no nonsense and “scrupulous matter-of-fact military man”. He was working for the Royal Geographical Society when he recorded this encounter, mapping out the Abuna and Acre rivers.
So is it possible that giant snakes exist or recently existed in the deepest parts of the Amazon? After all, the largest snake ever recognized by science was found in that general area….